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Prometheus, the industrial-focused AI venture led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a\u00a0Series B funding that values the company at $41 billion.<\/p>\n
The financing marks one of the largest recent private rounds and signals investor appetite for AI aimed at redesigning how complex hardware gets developed.<\/p>\n
The company plans to apply AI to earlier stages of manufacturing work, including prototyping and the tuning of equipment and workflows before full-scale production, Axios reported. Prometheus is being run with Vik Bajaj, a former Google executive, and has about 150 employees.<\/p>\n
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Bezos told Axios the long lead times for building physical products are a core target for the startup. \u201cThe cycle from dream, to manufacturing at rate, to having it out in the world can be very long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In a longer example, Bezos described how even incremental changes to a jet engine can stretch into a decade-long effort and said Prometheus is building tools to shorten that timeline. \u201cSo what we\u2019re doing is building a set of tools that will empower engineers to compress that cycle time and make that dream-build loop be 10 times faster or even more,\u201d Bezos said.<\/p>\n
Prometheus Pre-Production Optimization <\/p>\n
Prometheus is positioning its technology as engineering software rather than a factory-automation or robotics play. Bezos acknowledged the tools could still be used in designing robots or even factories, but the current focus is on pre-production optimization.<\/p>\n
The startup says it is working toward what it calls an \u201cartificial general engineer.\u201d Bajaj framed the pitch as expanding, not shrinking, the engineering workforce: \u201cThe pace of our physical creation right now is nowhere near the pace of human imagination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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